Mumbai | Azam Khan, a witness in the alleged Sohrabuddin fake encounter case today claimed in a Mumbai court that former DIG of Gujarat Police DG Vanzara gave Sohrabuddin Sheikh the contract to kill former Gujarat home minister Haren Pandya.
The witness further added that Sohrabuddin has told him that he got the contract of killing Pandya and he informed a CBI officer regarding this. However, the officer refused to include this in his testimony. The Central Beaureu of Investigation (CBI) had claimed that Haren Pandya who was murdered in 2003 was killed for the revenge of the 2002 riots.
Azam Khan in his statement before the CBI trial court said he met Sohrabuddin in 2002 and became good friends with him and his wife Kausar Bi. He further claimed, “Sohrabuddin told me he had got money from DG Vanzara to kill Gujarat’s home minister Haren Pandya and he completed the job.”
Sohrabuddin Shiekh and his wife Kasur Bi died in an alleged fake encounter by the Gujarat Police in 2005. The trial court in 2017 discharged 16 out of 38 people for the two alleged encounters of Sohrabuddin and his associate Tulsiram Prajapati including DG Vanzara and BJP president Amit Shah.
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